From college classroom to professional practice;

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FROM COLLEGE
CLASSROOM
TO PROFESSIONAL
PRACTICE
By Edwin R. Lang,
Partner-in-Charge
of Personnel
Photographs are of first of three
groups who attended College
Graduate Training Course. Above,
left: The initial meeting brings all
the college graduates together
to hear opening remarks.
Right: Thomas B. Hogan, Partner-in-
Charge of New York Office,
is among many partners who meet
graduates at University Club
reception.
It is often said that the two significant
assets of a firm like ours are its clients
and its people. We could never serve
our clients and maintain our growth
without outstanding people. We can
and do get fine college graduates, re­cruited
from hundreds of colleges and
universities throughout the nation. What
we do with them, and what they do for
themselves with the help we give them,
has much to do with the value of these
assets.
Our investment in training these men
begins their first summer with the Firm
in the College Graduate Training
Course. The course dates back to 1920,
when 40 men from 15 of our offices
were brought to New York for training
under John R. Wildman, partner in
charge of the Department of Profes­sional
Training as it was then known.
Most of our accountants today have ex­perienced
this introduction to H&S.
However, the organization of the course
has changed many times over the years
to keep pace with the progress of the
profession and the educational level of
accounting students. Accountants who
took the course as recently as four years
ago would scarcely recognize it today.
Yet many of the fundamentals re­main
the same. The purposes are still
to smooth the transition from college
classroom to professional practice, and
to help each new accountant get ac­quainted
with other new staff men
from all over the country and with a
number of partners, principals, and
senior accountants as well. College grad­uates
still have endless capacity for in­formal
"bull sessions" and like to ex­plore
New York together. Partners from
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